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Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu... by 3amOpsGuy on Monday July 30, 2012 @05:57PM (#4314899)
>> When you’re a marketplace, you always fight the chicken/egg problem and the last thing you want to do is open up a marketplace when you don’t have enough supply yet

What's are your views here?

This is a really interesting question for me. I keep putting off a side project that I'd love to do because it suffers this exact problem.

I want to believe there's another way to handle this situation.

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Re:The API Hub: Jeff Bezos-Backed Mashape Launches To The Pu... by rigelstpierre on Monday July 30, 2012 @06:02PM (#4314917)
Seems the solution is to really market to the creators of quality and useful API creators and build that with the promise of the users coming latter.

They app is really well designed and useful without the users there to the API creator.

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